in reply to Re: Are Perl patterns universal?
in thread Are Perl patterns universal?

Did you try it?
running this program... 
my $inf; $inf=qr/\b(??{$inf})/;
print "matched" if ("abc"=~m/$inf/);

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...under perl5.8.4 results in a "Segmentation fault" on my machine.

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